About: cjmarshall
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Posts by cjmarshall:
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism,
14 Mar 2025 in History&Religion
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Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952),
13 Mar 2025 in Film&History
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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse,
12 Mar 2025 in Music
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When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About,
11 Mar 2025 in Film&History
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Watch “The Birth of the Robot,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Stop-Motion Animation,
10 Mar 2025 in Animation
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A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House,
07 Mar 2025 in Architecture
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The Classic 1972 Concert Film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Gets Restored & Will Soon Hit IMAX Theaters,
06 Mar 2025 in Film&Music
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How Stephen King Foretold the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel,
05 Mar 2025 in Books&Politics
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How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937,
04 Mar 2025 in Art&History
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Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1989),
03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Comedy&Television
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The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9”,
28 Feb 2025 in Music
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Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album,
27 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Current Affairs&Music
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What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History,
26 Feb 2025 in Art&History
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The 48 Laws of Power Explained in 30 Minutes: “Never Outshine the Master,” “Re-Create Yourself,” and More,
25 Feb 2025 in Books&Politics
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More,
24 Feb 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
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How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference,
21 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence
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The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes,
20 Feb 2025 in Architecture&History
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Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977),
19 Feb 2025 in Music&Sci Fi
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Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer,
18 Feb 2025 in History&Language&Travel
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Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A,
17 Feb 2025 in Art&Books
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Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More,
14 Feb 2025 in Current Affairs&Music
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How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music,
13 Feb 2025 in History&Music&Technology
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What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern,
12 Feb 2025 in Food & Drink&History
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Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European,
11 Feb 2025 in History&Language
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History,
10 Feb 2025 in History&Science
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Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More,
07 Feb 2025 in Film
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See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores,
06 Feb 2025 in Animation&Music
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How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish,
05 Feb 2025 in History&Science
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How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend,
04 Feb 2025 in Fashion&History
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Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk,
03 Feb 2025 in Science&Technology
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The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene,
31 Jan 2025 in Psychology
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How Robert Frost Wrote One of His Most Famous Poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”,
30 Jan 2025 in Poetry
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How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction,
29 Jan 2025 in Architecture&History
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When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903,
28 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
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How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music,
27 Jan 2025 in History&Music
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Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors,
24 Jan 2025 in Film
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Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture,
23 Jan 2025 in Music&Television
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Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home,
22 Jan 2025 in Film&YouTube
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The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino,
21 Jan 2025 in Film
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Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation,
20 Jan 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
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The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More,
16 Jan 2025 in Art&Film
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Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires,
16 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs&History
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Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order,
15 Jan 2025 in Art&Television
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Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914),
14 Jan 2025 in Animation&Film&History
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Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show,
13 Jan 2025 in Comedy&History&Television
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In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts,
10 Jan 2025 in Books&History&Technology
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Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images,
09 Jan 2025 in Archives&History
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Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival,
08 Jan 2025 in Film&History&Music
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Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking,
07 Jan 2025 in Film
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The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929),
06 Jan 2025 in Animation&History
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”,
03 Jan 2025 in Music&Poetry
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema,
02 Jan 2025 in Film
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More,
01 Jan 2025 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Law&Music
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The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today,
31 Dec 2024 in History&Music
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples & Other Famous Structures Took Generations to Complete,
30 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088,
27 Dec 2024 in Letters&Literature
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics,
26 Dec 2024 in Books&Literature
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers,
26 Dec 2024 in Film
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened,
24 Dec 2024 in Music&Television
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece,
23 Dec 2024 in Art&History
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948),
20 Dec 2024 in History&Photography
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine (1983),
19 Dec 2024 in Science&Television
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey,
18 Dec 2024 in Current Affairs&History&Radio
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained with Animation,
17 Dec 2024 in History&Technology
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975),
16 Dec 2024 in Music
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra,
13 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That Girl & More,
12 Dec 2024 in Television
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically Evolved,
11 Dec 2024 in Art&Technology
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019,
10 Dec 2024 in History&Music
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Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & the Existential Questions We Would Need to Answer (1978),
09 Dec 2024 in History&Technology&Television
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The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer,
06 Dec 2024 in Food & Drink&Travel
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Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels,
05 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature
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Scientists Discover that Ancient Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 Year-Old Mug,
04 Dec 2024 in History&Religion
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Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More,
03 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature&Religion
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Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”,
02 Dec 2024 in Philosophy
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow,
29 Nov 2024 in Art
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The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023),
29 Nov 2024 in History&Music
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Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive,
27 Nov 2024 in Archives&Books&Design&History&Museums
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How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902),
26 Nov 2024 in Film&History
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How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies,
25 Nov 2024 in Film&History&Law
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How the Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps,
22 Nov 2024 in History&Maps&Travel
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An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript,
21 Nov 2024 in Books&History
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Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI,
20 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
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Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time,
19 Nov 2024 in Art&Biology&Books
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Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930),
18 Nov 2024 in Education&Life&Philosophy
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What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself,
15 Nov 2024 in History&Technology
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Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles,
14 Nov 2024 in Architecture&Travel
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A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance,
13 Nov 2024 in Film&History
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How Designing Buildings Upside-Down Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More,
12 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Physics
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Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December,
11 Nov 2024 in Film
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Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC,
08 Nov 2024 in History&Writing
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How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years,
07 Nov 2024 in Film&Technology
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Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More,
06 Nov 2024 in Film
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Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More,
05 Nov 2024 in Archives&Museums
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Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922),
04 Nov 2024 in Art&Books&Poetry
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How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs,
01 Nov 2024 in Film
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Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others,
31 Oct 2024 in Audio Books&Literature
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Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths in Popular Movies and TV Shows,
30 Oct 2024 in Film&History&Religion&Television
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Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life,
29 Oct 2024 in Philosophy
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The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965),
28 Oct 2024 in Animation&Film
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Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More,
25 Oct 2024 in Books&Literature&Music
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The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes,
24 Oct 2024 in Film&History
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Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665,
23 Oct 2024 in History
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Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks,
22 Oct 2024 in History&Technology
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How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography,
21 Oct 2024 in Art&Photography
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Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions,
18 Oct 2024 in Art&Neuroscience
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The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002),
17 Oct 2024 in Music
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The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls,
16 Oct 2024 in Architecture&History
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Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films,
15 Oct 2024 in Architecture&Film
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The Amazing Recording History of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”,
14 Oct 2024 in Music
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The Writer Who Directed, The Director Who Wrote: Every Frame a Painting Explores the Genius of Billy Wilder,
11 Oct 2024 in Film
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The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Four-Decade-Struggle to Make Megalopolis,
10 Oct 2024 in Film
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale,
09 Oct 2024 in Games&Literature
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T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form,
08 Oct 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Poetry
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David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip,
07 Oct 2024 in Film&Travel
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The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It,
04 Oct 2024 in Science&Technology&Television
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When Kris Kristofferson (RIP) Stood by Sinéad O’Connor at the Height of Her Controversy,
03 Oct 2024 in History&Music
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Artificial Intelligence & Drones Uncover 303 New Nazca Lines in Peru,
02 Oct 2024 in Art&History&Technology
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How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color,
01 Oct 2024 in Art&History
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Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation,
01 Oct 2024 in Animation&Television
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Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive,
30 Sep 2024 in Archives
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How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer,
27 Sep 2024 in History&Photography
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How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies,
26 Sep 2024 in Film&Television
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Watch the First Performance of a Mozart Composition That Had Been Lost for Centuries,
25 Sep 2024 in History&Music
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How Art Gets Stolen: What Happened to Egon Schiele’s Painting Boats Mirrored in the Water After Its Theft by the Nazis,
24 Sep 2024 in Art&History
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Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & “Make Your Soul Grow”,
23 Sep 2024 in Art&Education&Letters
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Do All Roads Lead to Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time,
19 Sep 2024 in Philosophy&Wikipedia
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The Longest Drivable Distance in the World: Discover the Ultimate Road Trip,
18 Sep 2024 in Maps&Travel
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How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting,
17 Sep 2024 in Language&Television
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The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains,
16 Sep 2024 in Music&Technology
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How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive Tour,
13 Sep 2024 in History&Technology
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How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II,
12 Sep 2024 in History
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13 Experimental Animations of Osamu Tezuka, “the Godfather of Manga” (1964–1987),
11 Sep 2024 in Animation&History
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Michio Kaku Demystifies the God Equation: The Key to Understanding Everything,
10 Sep 2024 in Physics
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The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From 1200 to Present,
09 Sep 2024 in History&Maps
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How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made”,
06 Sep 2024 in Film&History&Sci Fi
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Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies,
05 Sep 2024 in Film
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A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s,
04 Sep 2024 in Archives&History&Music&Technology
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Behold the First American Board Game, Travellers’ Tour Through the United States (1822),
03 Sep 2024 in Games&History
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Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the Internet Archive,
02 Sep 2024 in Archives&Film&Television